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Hot, hotter, Gran Canaria…

Sunday, July 29th, 2007
What a day!! 46º degrees as you see on the picture showed the thermometers this midday in Maspalomas. The streets were almost desert and those who had the courgage or the obligation to walk the streets looked like they were being tortured. This, so called, 'CALIMA' is warm sticky air from the sahara is not unusual here but seldom reaches as high as today. The extreme heat favour the formation of forest fires which have been the order of these last few days. There was one in Mogan a few days ago and a bigger one in the center of the isle, talking over to the municipalities of San Bartolomé De Tirajana and Tejeda. In Spite of the 3500 hectare that it has already burnt down the president of the Gran Canaria Council if confident that it should be controlled by todays evening. Wow, that is some ...
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Great initiative

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
The summer is doing its best to provide sunshine wherever it's needed and we on Gran Canaria fortunately have plenty of it. The Red Cross organizes from this monday till mid september and initiative to help handicaped people enjoy the beach as much as we do. The "leisure at the beach program" gives people with mobility problems the oportunity to take walk at the shore or a dip of the 'Las Canteras' beach in Las Palmas. For those living in Las Palmas the program includes a "pick-up service" in the morning for those who need it and then from 11:30 till 16:30, several volunteers will help take care of them. Other activities are planed too, swapping the seashore with visits to different places of Gran Canaria. Now that is one good news i think. Great guys!!

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Blue flags…

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Hi there,

I'm back again :D yeeaayy!! hahaha
I have been very busy the last months and I just wanted to start over again with some good news.

Therefore, here I go. The 'port of Mogan' and the 'Amadores beach', both in the municipality of Mogan, have been awarded once again with the so called "blue flag", which is given by the 'Federation for Environmental Education' for excelcent quality, cleanliness, accessibility and security of their waters and beaches.

The other "blueflagged" beaches on Gran Canaria are: the 'Las Canteras' beach in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the 'Melenara' beach in Telde and the beaches of 'San Agustín', 'Playa del Inglés' and 'Maspalomas' in San Bartolomé de Tirajana.
The other "blueflagged" ports are: the port of 'Pasito Blanco' in the municipality of San Bartolomé de

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I’m alive

Monday, July 9th, 2007
Sorry for this break once again. :S Don't think it's intentionally but a students life is busy while the exams last. Please be patient, i finish this Tuesday and hopefully be posting again from then onwards Thank you, Rayco.

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San Juan 07

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

San Juan

Don't get alarmed tonight, if the entire island seems to be submerged in chaos with bonfires everywhere. We are neither under attack nor have been hit by a meteor shower. :P ;) If you don't have nothing to do tonight, i higly recomend you wherever you are on the isle, but specially those near to the Playa del Inlges (San Bartolomé) and the Canteras (Las Palmas) beaches to visit these beaches around 12:00 PM. Like every year in june, normally coinciding with days around the summer solstice, the night of the 23rd to 24th, we celebrate "San Juan". In this peculiar festivity there is a large fireworks spectacle and people make huge bonfires almost everywhere but the bigest are seen at the beaches. This was originally made to "strengthen the sun", since the days will get shorter every day until the winter solstice. You should witness ...
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